While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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FOR the past five years government policy has sought to drive more and more schools, both secondary and primary, to become academies.
In 2010, the coalition government railroaded through its Academies Act with the minimum of consultation, and with a haste comparable to the Dangerous Dogs Act.
The Academies Act made it impossible for new schools to be opened unless they were academies or free schools.
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